Project Management Resume

Nadja Masura

Introduction
In order to fully utilize her communication, visualization, and problem-solving skills, this determined, intuitive, intellectual and conceptual thinker seeks to join a motivated team in a progressive atmosphere within a learning community or innovative company.

Events, Directing, Project Management

Organized, coordinated, and ran the region-wide Sonoma County Book Festival as its Director, generated a profit (during a recession) for the organization for the first time since its inception in 1999

Founded, coordinated, and performed with the Digital Performance Group for Elements, 2006, an original, collaborative, interdisciplinary digital media performance combining telematic performance, MIDI-triggering, tap-tiles, and projection at the University of Maryland, also maintained the performance blog

Directed and performed in Outside/In at the University of Maryland, 2003 (an online work with Ottawa University and the University of Utah)

Traveling Faster Than The Speed of Light, 2000, Executive Producer

Artistic Director of the Ugly Duckling Theatre in Sonoma County, California, 1999-2002

Acted, directed, designed, and built over a dozen educational theatre productions at the University of Puget Sound (including Amadeus, Grapes of Wrath, A Shana Madel, School For Wives, and Machinal)

Organizing Information, Research, and Writing

Organized, researched and wrote about innovative theory regarding digital technology’s effect on forms of public communication and presentation (the doctoral dissertation was titled, “Digital Theatre: A ‘Live’ and Mediated Art Form Expanding Perceptions of Body, Place, and Community”)

Developed and authored a research website, www.digthet.com

Worked for four years with Access Grid video conferencing and online collaboration in the ArtGrid online arts-technology community including multi-site presentation and national recognition (Peoria Prize)

Drafted proposals for funding grants

Created innovative collaborations across disciplines involving media

Performed as part of InterPlay: Hallucinations, 2004, and InterPlay: Loose Minds in a Box, 2005, InterPlay: Dancing on the Banks of Packet Creek, 2006, and InterPlay: Nel Tempo di Sogno, 2007 with ArtGrid

Participated in the Art On The Grid performance works: Network Touch, and Collective Hope, 2003

Authored a docent column for the Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Twice awarded the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities/Theatre and Digital Technology Fellow (2002-2004) (Winnamore Research Fellowship)

Re-Membering Harmony, a site-specific performance and community media log of oral history, currently a work in progress for the Occidental Center for the Arts with the Virtual Performance Collaborative

Media design and production for Morningstar (2008), Elements (2006), and Thaw (2003) (a collaborative work with bluescreen, video, and rear-screen projection)

Over ten years of experience in web design and authoring using Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash, etc., including: Evolution Yoga, Science Interchange, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Art at the Source, in house work for Kreck Web Design and PBHS, conference websites for The American College Theatre Festival and the International Federation of Theatre, website maintained for Women in Theatre and Performance (see www.nadjaart.com for these and other links)

Marine Mammal Center Educational CD

Executive Producer and Cinematographer for the independent film, Traveling Faster than the Speed of Light, 2000

Featured digital and traditional media artist in the Art at the Source studio tour, 2000-2001

Featured digital artist for the “Passions” art exhibit at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Developed a GUI concept web design for Commercial Zen

Training and Speaking

Taught courses in Theatre Arts to beginners, all skill levels, and backgrounds at the University of Maryland and at the University of Michigan

Designed and taught a course in the Digital Humanities called Digital Directions: Technology in the Humanities Summer Intensive at the University of Maryland, including instruction in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and Literature

Developed courses in digital humanities (hands-on experience teaching media skills to multiple skill levels), including a presentation at the University of Maryland Center for Teaching Excellence workshop “Crossing Boundaries: Learning to Teach Multiculturalism”

Guest lectured on media in Theatre for various Theatre classes

Developed an online educational learning tool for the Interstitial Cystitis Network

Facilitated and worked with numerous groups and committees, including the Sonoma County Literary Arts Committee, and Citizen Diplomacy

Presented a paper titled “Shifting Places of Interculturalism: Place, Placelessness, and Multi-layered Space in Digital Collaboration” for ATHE, for which I won the American Theatre and Drama Society Emerging Scholars award, 2004

Education
2007 Ph.D., Theatre and Performance Studies University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May 2007
2000 A.S., Multimedia/Graphics Design
College of Marin, Novato, CA, May 2000
2000 A.S., Multimedia/Authoring and Integration
College of Marin, Novato, CA, May 2000
1996 M.A., Theatre
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 1996
1994 B.A., Theatre
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, May 1994